The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Rel... by Bertrand RussellBreaking the Spell by Daniel C. DennettThe Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other ... by Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftCandide by VoltaireRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCommon Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas Paine
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The Rest Is Noise by Alex  Ross
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1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyNeuromancer by William GibsonI, Robot by Isaac AsimovThe Stand by Stephen  King
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Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantTractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophical Investigations by Ludwig WittgensteinOn Liberty by John Stuart MillThe Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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